Monday, January 06, 2014

Photo Insets - Denver's 16th Street

While nowhere near as cool or well done as the photos shown in this previous posting: LINK; or even as well done as the pictures show on dearphotograph.com; I give you my rendition of vintage photos of Denver's 16th Street.

Back in the day, it was apparently a main parade route for events and celebrations. I found several photos in the Denver Public Library's archive; and using photoshop, merged them into photos I took just the other day of the same location (mostly).

I will show the original photo first, then the merged version. I hope you enjoy them, I found them actually pretty easy to make. The call number is listed below each pic as sourcing information. Just use the archive link above or try the call number link below each photo.

The overlay is kinda cool I like seeing the traffic on 16th and I love the old picture of DT Denver. Show a shot of the real today mall, pedestrians and the mall crawl buses. As far as motorcycles, DPD motor cops ride and patrol 16th st regularly all year long.

Thanks Spat, I thought about showing the original "present day" photos but they basically showed the trees that line the middle of 16th Street now. I've seen the patrolling cops on their Harleys.....they don't seem to be impeding the presence of the panhandlers, drifters, freaks and other low life activity that clutters the 16th street mall.